Posted on 08/20/2009 3:43:24 AM PDT by Scanian
WASHINGTON -- Repeatedly invoking the Bible, President Obama yesterday told religious leaders that health-care critics are "bearing false witness" against his plan.
The fire-and-brimstone president declared holy war in a telephone call with thousands of religious leaders around the country as he sought to breathe life into his plan for a system overhaul.
Without naming anyone specifically in the 10-minute conference call, Obama said opponents had been spreading lies.
"I know that there's been a lot of misinformation in this debate and there are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness," Obama said.
"I need you to spread the facts and speak the truth."
In particular, Obama said the claim that the government would make decisions regarding end-of-life care for the elderly -- the so-called "death panels" -- is "ludicrous" and an "extraordinary lie."
He also disputed charges that the overhaul would pay for abortions and care for illegal immigrants.
He said the reforms aim to carry out one of God's commandments.
"I am my brother's keeper. I am my sister's keeper," Obama said.
He called health reform a "core ethical and moral obligation."
The president acknowledged that the effort has met with deeply inflamed opposition from people who don't trust the federal government to carry out such a plan when every government health program already now faces bankruptcy.
He likened his current situation to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt when opponents called him "socialist."
"I'm going to need the help of all of you," Obama said.
The president spoke to the faith leaders after meeting with 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup champ Jimmie Johnson at the White House.
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That could be taken two ways. He's committed to the health and prosperity of all. Or, he's committed to the health and prosperity of those who's years and health deserve attention by seeing that those who are a drag on the system are removed.
I'll take "B", Alex...
He’s not my “keeper” in any way, shape or form, and I don’t want him to be, either.
..."and I better be, since he knows where I was born"
This is the typical ad hominem attack employed when you can’t defend your policies. Liberals/Obama refine it to whomever they’re calling. However, when Obama’s handlers haven’t written out his words beforehand, he usually just says, “I won, so there!” I have a theory that he’ll empty the prisons and put former inmates in fatigues as homeland thug squads. Homegrown brownshirts with assault rifles.
That would be “keeper” as in “zookeeper”.
You apparently keep your brother in a HUT!!!!
The devil is quoting Scripture again. We know who is bearing false witness. We can read the bill.
How come they’re not screaming....separaton of church & state?????
Let us not all forget how this pathological lying fraud let HIS OWN BROTHER live in squalor.
Brother’s keeper my a**!!!!
“I am my brother’s keeper” is not a Commandment and not, as far as I know, even a Bible quote. When Cain murdered his brother Abel, God asked him what happened. Cain gave God the snotty answer, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” It figures Obama would twist the lame excuse of a murderer to rally support for government-run healthcare.
He disgusts me in ways far beyond anything I ever felt toward Klinton.
Obama invokes scripture ‘eh, well, I’ve got some scripture for Obama. “Get behind thee Satan”.
Maybe he should practice what he preaches and help his brother in Kenya who is living in abject poverty.
Can you imagine the reaction if President Bush said this?
Bingo! the man is comfortable twisting the Bible to suit his inhuman desires. That's Satan's work.
The O’s big problem here is he is defending something he hasn’t even read.
“I need you to spread the facts and speak the truth.”
I hope they are smart enough to not buy into that.
Typical... he has to put a PC spin on it, too...
THAT is bloody brilliant. BRAVO (my hat is off to you!)
As for the 0bamaMessiah?
I say to him as I would say to the Devil himself “Get thee behind me Satan!”
(calm down Barney Frank, those words ‘behind me’ have a different context here, ok?)
It is so ludicrous, but yet all Obama's top health care czars have endorsed the idea of death panels.
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